Alcoholism Support Group

Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.

Rainy angel if there was such a drug you would I imagine use it till you became mentally dependant upon it. I have something much better than any drug or alcoholic drink its called life and the ability to live it sober not wanting to be out of it. I hope you find what it is your looking for and I hope when you find it its not chemical based.

That was an amusing yet serious point in the documentry,I thought
The stand out points in the rest of the film for me were in the early part how the Prof indicate how many parts of the brain are stimulated by alcohol which are the same or simular to valium (diazipan) ,dopamineseratonin (prozac) barbituites.I was offered prozac and diazapan by my gp in early recovery I now wonder if his plan was to ween me off these drugs that I had been getting from alcohol I took prozac for a while and very small doses of diazapan.didnt realise how adictive it was so glad i didnt make a habit of it
They did touch also on the elusive gene variant which does seem to be a fact but they had to consume alcohol to test that theory..Hopefully they will find a way to detect the gene variant without alcohol.Of course that would only be usefull to act as a warning to potential alcoholics which most people are aware via family history
Sciance may one day!

Hi, I'm new here again. Use to come on here a lot years ago. Wanted to introduce myself and say hello. I plan to be on here much more. I need to reach out more and find some hope again. I"m going to start AA again Thursday. A neighbor is taking me along with. I finally said yes. Gotta do something. I can't fix myself, I need to put myself into the positions where I can get help though...

Early recovery is very overwhelming. Essentially, we are asked to change everything. What I've learned after a few 24 is that I really only need to change one thing, the way I think because my problems are centered in my mind. I have a perception/perspective defect. Being open-minded is essential to my recovery because the result is that everything does change. If you're new, don't use the...

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